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Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political
dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture
and public discourse. As a pop culture text, the animated series
Star Wars: The Clone Wars offers critical commentary on
contemporary issues, marking a moment of interplay whereby author
and audience come together in what Russian philosopher Mikhail
Bakhtin called collaborative meaning making. This book critically
examines the series as a voice in the political dialogs concerning
human cloning, torture, just war theory, peace and drone warfare.
While previous work on the Star Wars universe charts the
Campbellian mythic arcs, political representations, and fan
reactions associated with the films, this volume takes a
transmedial approach to the material, recognizing that Star Wars TV
projects interact with and relate to other Star Wars texts. The
chapters in this volume take as a basic premise that the televisual
entrants into the Star Wars transmedia storyworld are both
important texts in the history of popular culture and also key to
understanding how the Star Wars franchise-and, thus, industry-wide
transmedia storytelling strategies-developed. The book expands
previous work to consider television studies and sharp cultural
criticism together in an effort to bring both long-running popular
series, long-ignored texts, and even toy commercials to bear on the
franchise's complex history.
While previous work on the Star Wars universe charts the
Campbellian mythic arcs, political representations, and fan
reactions associated with the films, this volume takes a
transmedial approach to the material, recognizing that Star Wars TV
projects interact with and relate to other Star Wars texts. The
chapters in this volume take as a basic premise that the televisual
entrants into the Star Wars transmedia storyworld are both
important texts in the history of popular culture and also key to
understanding how the Star Wars franchise-and, thus, industry-wide
transmedia storytelling strategies-developed. The book expands
previous work to consider television studies and sharp cultural
criticism together in an effort to bring both long-running popular
series, long-ignored texts, and even toy commercials to bear on the
franchise's complex history.
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